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desirable to utilise in the future. One of these was 

 the spring at the foot of the chalk hills between East 

 Hendred and Wantage, which was not likely to pass 

 out of the remembrance of those who had shared in a 

 particular class excursion. 



The following note to his friend John Evans refers 

 to a tour in France : 



DARENT-HULME, 2nd September. 



My thoughts were much with you last week, and greatly did 

 I regret I could not be present in person. A few years since 

 I should never have hesitated to draw 10 days on time. But 

 since I have turned 70 I awake to its value and importance, 

 and until I have finished the work I have had so many years 

 in hand I feel reluctant to turn aside, however tempting the 

 occasion may be. ... 



As years glided on, rarely one passed, alas ! which 

 was unmarked by the loss of a friend. In a letter, 

 dated January 1885, addressed to Mr Evans, Prest- 

 wich records the death of Mr J. Gwyn Jeffreys, the 

 conchologist, who had been his companion in geological 

 excursions, and with whom he had so many interests 

 in common. " The death of our dear old friend Jeffreys 

 was a great shock to us. How dreadfully sudden it 

 was ! We called on Sunday, but too late to see him." 

 Only on the previous Friday evening Mr Gwyn Jeffreys 

 had listened to a lecture at the Royal Institution by 

 his distinguished son-in-law, the late Professor Moseley. 



Hilary term in 1885 was heavily weighted. In ad- 

 dition to the regular work, there was the steady pre- 

 paration of ' Geology/ and no fewer than three papers 

 in hand for the Royal Society. One of these, which 

 represented a vast amount of research, was sent in on 

 the 24th January. Its title was, " On Underground 



